ok thanks just bookmarked the page. . . il get back to this when i return to the offce. .btw got a little hard time installing 5.8 in Vmware. .. process stops when i choose "yes" in the question/section:

"do you want to probe hardware settings (xorg)" --similar to that --- (this is the section BEFORE the default runlevel option is asked)

--the screen just leaves a black blank space after choosing "yes"--- in my third attempt of INSTALLATION i chose no.. then the rest was ok. ..

the hang in x configuration during the vmware install is a known issue, just choose no. Complete the install. If you can't login in gui mode, login in tui mode, as root do cp /etc/X11/xprg.conf-vesa /etc/X11/xorg.confTry to login in gui again. That should do it.

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the hang in x configuration during the vmware install is a known issue, just choose no. Complete the install. If you can't login in gui mode, login in tui mode, as root do cp /etc/X11/xprg.conf-vesa /etc/X11/xorg.confTry to login in gui again. That should do it.

it was ok during my 3rd attempt since i chose "NO" and now im using it to test my installed mysql database.

Mysql is like a service, you can connect to a mysql database locally or through the internet if you want to. But is not a must. Actually this forum is using mysql, and this is an interface for the database, written in php.

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To start mysqld at boot time you have to copy support-files/mysql.serverto the right place for your system

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER !To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands:/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h vector.linux.net password 'new-password'See the manual for more instructions.

NOTE: If you are upgrading from a MySQL <= 3.22.10 you should runthe /usr/bin/mysql_fix_privilege_tables. Otherwise you will not beable to use the new GRANT command!

You can start the MySQL daemon with:cd /usr ; /usr/bin/mysqld_safe &

You can test the MySQL daemon with the benchmarks in the 'sql-bench' directory:cd sql-bench ; perl run-all-tests

# Example MySQL config file for small systems.## This is for a system with little memory (<= 64M) where MySQL is only used# from time to time and it's important that the mysqld daemon# doesn't use much resources.## You can copy this file to# /etc/my.cnf to set global options,# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this# installation this directory is /var/lib/mysql) or# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.## In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program# with the "--help" option.

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients[client]#password = your_passwordport = 3306socket = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows# (using the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!# #skip-networkingserver-id = 1

# Uncomment the following if you want to log updates#log-bin=mysql-bin

[mysql]no-auto-rehash# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL#safe-updates

[isamchk]key_buffer = 8Msort_buffer_size = 8M

[myisamchk]key_buffer = 8Msort_buffer_size = 8M

[mysqlhotcopy]interactive-timeout

CONTENTS of MEDIUM.cnf

# Example MySQL config file for medium systems.## This is for a system with little memory (32M - 64M) where MySQL plays# an important part, or systems up to 128M where MySQL is used together with# other programs (such as a web server)## You can copy this file to# /etc/my.cnf to set global options,# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this# installation this directory is /var/lib/mysql) or# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.## In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program# with the "--help" option.

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients[client]#password = your_passwordport = 3306socket = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows# (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!# #skip-networking

# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1# defaults to 1 if master-host is not set# but will not function as a master if omittedserver-id = 1

# Replication Slave (comment out master section to use this)## To configure this host as a replication slave, you can choose between# two methods :## 1) Use the CHANGE MASTER TO command (fully described in our manual) -# the syntax is:## CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=<host>, MASTER_PORT=<port>,# MASTER_USER=<user>, MASTER_PASSWORD=<password> ;## where you replace <host>, <user>, <password> by quoted strings and# <port> by the master's port number (3306 by default).## Example:## CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='125.564.12.1', MASTER_PORT=3306,# MASTER_USER='joe', MASTER_PASSWORD='secret';## OR## 2) Set the variables below. However, in case you choose this method, then# start replication for the first time (even unsuccessfully, for example# if you mistyped the password in master-password and the slave fails to# connect), the slave will create a master.info file, and any later# change in this file to the variables' values below will be ignored and# overridden by the content of the master.info file, unless you shutdown# the slave server, delete master.info and restart the slaver server.# For that reason, you may want to leave the lines below untouched# (commented) and instead use CHANGE MASTER TO (see above)## required unique id between 2 and 2^32 - 1# (and different from the master)# defaults to 2 if master-host is set# but will not function as a slave if omitted#server-id = 2## The replication master for this slave - required#master-host = <hostname>## The username the slave will use for authentication when connecting# to the master - required#master-user = <username>## The password the slave will authenticate with when connecting to# the master - required#master-password = <password>## The port the master is listening on.# optional - defaults to 3306#master-port = <port>## binary logging - not required for slaves, but recommended#log-bin=mysql-bin

# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks#tmpdir = /tmp/ #log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname

# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables#bdb_cache_size = 4M#bdb_max_lock = 10000

CONTENTS OF LARGE.cnf# Example MySQL config file for large systems.## This is for a large system with memory = 512M where the system runs mainly# MySQL.## You can copy this file to# /etc/my.cnf to set global options,# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this# installation this directory is /var/lib/mysql) or# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.## In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program# with the "--help" option.

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients[client]#password = your_passwordport = 3306socket = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows# (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!# #skip-networking

# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1# defaults to 1 if master-host is not set# but will not function as a master if omittedserver-id = 1

# Replication Slave (comment out master section to use this)## To configure this host as a replication slave, you can choose between# two methods :## 1) Use the CHANGE MASTER TO command (fully described in our manual) -# the syntax is:## CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=<host>, MASTER_PORT=<port>,# MASTER_USER=<user>, MASTER_PASSWORD=<password> ;## where you replace <host>, <user>, <password> by quoted strings and# <port> by the master's port number (3306 by default).## Example:## CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='125.564.12.1', MASTER_PORT=3306,# MASTER_USER='joe', MASTER_PASSWORD='secret';## OR## 2) Set the variables below. However, in case you choose this method, then# start replication for the first time (even unsuccessfully, for example# if you mistyped the password in master-password and the slave fails to# connect), the slave will create a master.info file, and any later# change in this file to the variables' values below will be ignored and# overridden by the content of the master.info file, unless you shutdown# the slave server, delete master.info and restart the slaver server.# For that reason, you may want to leave the lines below untouched# (commented) and instead use CHANGE MASTER TO (see above)## required unique id between 2 and 2^32 - 1# (and different from the master)# defaults to 2 if master-host is set# but will not function as a slave if omitted#server-id = 2## The replication master for this slave - required#master-host = <hostname>## The username the slave will use for authentication when connecting# to the master - required#master-user = <username>## The password the slave will authenticate with when connecting to# the master - required#master-password = <password>## The port the master is listening on.# optional - defaults to 3306#master-port = <port>## binary logging - not required for slaves, but recommended#log-bin=mysql-bin

# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks#tmpdir = /tmp/ #log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname

# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables#bdb_cache_size = 64M#bdb_max_lock = 100000

# Example MySQL config file for very large systems.## This is for a large system with memory of 1G-2G where the system runs mainly# MySQL.## You can copy this file to# /etc/my.cnf to set global options,# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this# installation this directory is /var/lib/mysql) or# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.## In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program# with the "--help" option.

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients[client]#password = your_passwordport = 3306socket = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows# (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!# #skip-networking

# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1# defaults to 1 if master-host is not set# but will not function as a master if omittedserver-id = 1

# Replication Slave (comment out master section to use this)## To configure this host as a replication slave, you can choose between# two methods :## 1) Use the CHANGE MASTER TO command (fully described in our manual) -# the syntax is:## CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=<host>, MASTER_PORT=<port>,# MASTER_USER=<user>, MASTER_PASSWORD=<password> ;## where you replace <host>, <user>, <password> by quoted strings and# <port> by the master's port number (3306 by default).## Example:## CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='125.564.12.1', MASTER_PORT=3306,# MASTER_USER='joe', MASTER_PASSWORD='secret';## OR## 2) Set the variables below. However, in case you choose this method, then# start replication for the first time (even unsuccessfully, for example# if you mistyped the password in master-password and the slave fails to# connect), the slave will create a master.info file, and any later# change in this file to the variables' values below will be ignored and# overridden by the content of the master.info file, unless you shutdown# the slave server, delete master.info and restart the slaver server.# For that reason, you may want to leave the lines below untouched# (commented) and instead use CHANGE MASTER TO (see above)## required unique id between 2 and 2^32 - 1# (and different from the master)# defaults to 2 if master-host is set# but will not function as a slave if omitted#server-id = 2## The replication master for this slave - required#master-host = <hostname>## The username the slave will use for authentication when connecting# to the master - required#master-user = <username>## The password the slave will authenticate with when connecting to# the master - required#master-password = <password>## The port the master is listening on.# optional - defaults to 3306#master-port = <port>## binary logging - not required for slaves, but recommended#log-bin=mysql-bin

# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks#tmpdir = /tmp/ #log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname

# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables#bdb_cache_size = 384M#bdb_max_lock = 100000

root:# /usr/bin/mysqladmin version/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failederror: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)'Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' exists!

You can copy this file to /etc/my.cnf to set global options, mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this installation this directory is /var/lib/mysql) or ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.

High likely your service is not runningthis can be easily fixed by running

./mysqld_safe --user=mysql &inside the /bin folder of the mysql directory.where you can make the user command a user you wish to use.Since you created your database as root, u'd have to boot it as root however this is UNSAFE, so change the permissions on the database files.

You can copy this file to /etc/my.cnf to set global options, mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this installation this directory is /var/lib/mysql) or ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.

Bigpaws

hi Bigpaws, sorry for being ignorant. . but.. i have no "my.cnf" file in /etc only the small.cnf , medium.cnf, large and huge.cnf files. . .